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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-...ng-elbowed-in-lip-during-basketball-game.html
President Barack Obama got 12 stitches in his lip after being injured during a basketball game, spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
"After being inadvertently hit with an opposing player's elbow in the lip while playing basketball with friends and family, the president received 12 stitches today administered by the White House medical unit," Gibbs said in a statement. The president played basketball for about 90 minutes at a gym at Fort McNair in Washington.
Obama played basketball regularly during the 2008 presidential campaign and had a basketball court installed on the South Lawn of the White House. In addition to playing at Fort McNair, he plays at other local sites, including the Interior Department.
Today, the president played with family members and friends in town for Thanksgiving, as well as with his personal aide, Reggie Love, a former college basketball player at Duke University.
Gibbs didn't disclose who injured the president.
In treating the president, doctors used a smaller filament which increases the number of stitches but makes a tighter stitch, resulting in "a smaller scar," according to an e-mailed White House statement.
Obama received a local anesthetic while getting the stitches, the statement said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Roger Runningen in Washington at [email protected]
President Barack Obama got 12 stitches in his lip after being injured during a basketball game, spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
"After being inadvertently hit with an opposing player's elbow in the lip while playing basketball with friends and family, the president received 12 stitches today administered by the White House medical unit," Gibbs said in a statement. The president played basketball for about 90 minutes at a gym at Fort McNair in Washington.
Obama played basketball regularly during the 2008 presidential campaign and had a basketball court installed on the South Lawn of the White House. In addition to playing at Fort McNair, he plays at other local sites, including the Interior Department.
Today, the president played with family members and friends in town for Thanksgiving, as well as with his personal aide, Reggie Love, a former college basketball player at Duke University.
Gibbs didn't disclose who injured the president.
In treating the president, doctors used a smaller filament which increases the number of stitches but makes a tighter stitch, resulting in "a smaller scar," according to an e-mailed White House statement.
Obama received a local anesthetic while getting the stitches, the statement said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Roger Runningen in Washington at [email protected]